The Nightingale-Bamford School | |
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20 East 92nd Street New York, New York 10128 | |
Coordinates | 40°47′05″N73°57′24″W / 40.78485°N 73.956727°W |
Information | |
Type | Private, girls |
Established | 1920 |
Founder | Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford |
Faculty | 92 (65 of which are full-time) [1] |
Grades | K-12 |
Enrollment | 686 |
Color(s) | pink Silver and Blue |
Mascot | Nighthawks |
Newspaper | The Spectator |
Website | Nightingale.org |
The Nightingale-Bamford School is an independent all-female university-preparatory school founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford. [2] Located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side, [3] Nightingale-Bamford is a member of the New York Interschool consortium.
Nightingale's Lower School includes grades K-4. Middle School includes grades 5–8, while Upper School includes grades 9–12. As of 2021, Nightingale enrolls 686 students, the student-faculty ratio is 6:1, and the average class size is 12 students. [4] Nightingale is ranked among the best all-girls private schools in the United States, and, like many private schools in Manhattan, is ranked as one of the most expensive. Only very few selected students are allowed to enroll each year as the tuition is very high and there is limited space. [5]
Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford founded the school in 1920. NBS was originally named Miss Nightingale's School, officially becoming "The Nightingale-Bamford School" in 1929. Since 1920, NBS has graduated nearly 3,000 alumnae. [6] As of 2008, the School endowment was $74.9 million. [7]
Paul Burke has been head of school since July 2012. He succeeded Dorothy Hutcheson, who was head of Nightingale for the prior 20 years. [8]
In April 2013, a team of five upper school students won first place at Technovation Challenge, the world's largest tech competition for girls. The $10,000 prize was used to develop and market their winning app. [9]
Nightingale-Bamford's admissions process has received media attention for its strict, high-stakes nature. [10]
As of the 2020–2021 school year, 20% of the student body received financial assistance with $5.9 million in grants being awarded. [11]
Over 30% of the student body of Nightingale-Bamford are students of color. [12] The school has a program called Cultural Awareness for Everyone, or informally CAFE. CAFE touches on the basis of not only race, but also class, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and age. [13] Nightingale recruits from an inner-city program called Prep for Prep. Prep for Prep is a leadership development program that offers promising students of color access to a private school education based in New York City. [14]
Nightingale-Bamford has no official partner or brother school. However, the school has activities with St. David's and Allen-Stevenson (both boys schools) and is a member of Interschool, which organizes programs and activities for eight New York City independent schools: Trinity, Dalton, Collegiate, Brearley, Chapin, Spence, Nightingale-Bamford, and Browning. [15]
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